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Lane Kiffin adds some valuable insight on Saban's "deez nutz" jokes. Says it started with
@marlon_humphrey
, who introduced Saban to the jokes. Saban took it from there. Deez nutz are a process.
BREAKING NEWS: There has been a significant outbreak of the coronavirus among construction workers at Alabama's Bryant-Denny Stadium, and a lack of transparency has put many others at risk.
This is infuriating. LeBron James is one of the smartest people I've ever covered. His advocacy and social awareness have defined a generation of American athletes. He's also going to be a billionaire before he's 40. This anchor is pandering, obviously.
Auburn will go into the Iron Bowl as a completely new team than it was two weeks ago. Just think about that for a moment. Just think about what Carnell Williams has accomplished in such a short period of time. People might try to discount or downplay it, but this legendary stuff.
Please read and share today, and help me celebrate the life of my wonderful son. Joseph "Taylor" Goodman, 22, was such a good boy, and inspiring young man.
Jamea Harris' stepdad reached out to me on Wednesday. We talked for a long time. The man had things to say. Here's the column.
Joseph Goodman: Jamea Harris family hurting after comments by Alabamaโs Nate Oats
It is absolutely criminal the way the fraudulent College Football Playoff Committee is treating BYU. This system is a joke and this pandemic has only magnified that fact. Not only are they killing all the Title IX sports, theyโre locking out everyone thatโs not in the cabal.
FINAL: Auburn 83, Georgia 60. A Wednesday night basketball game in February in Auburn, Alabama, feels like a Knicks playoff game at MSG. What is happening at Auburn is the wildest shit in sports.
Alabama should be ahead of Georgia. Georgia has a loss to South Carolina, which is 4-6 with losses to Mizzou and Appy State. Alabama scored 47 points on South Carolina. Everyone realizes this is nonsense, right?
Spent the news conference with Alabamaโs Nate Oats trying to ask a question entire time. Had hand raised, following the protocol of Alabamaโs PR staff of waiting to be called on. News conference came and went. Never called on. Not a good look for Alabama. Disappointed in them.
Look at this crazy fun. This is sports heaven. Auburn basketball is something different because Auburn Arena is a little gym of 9,121 Hall of Fame fans.
Cecil Hurt was a national treasure, man. He was a national treasure from our own little corner of the map. He was brilliant. He was a master. But most importantly Cecil was kind and cared. He believed in the power of good people and Iโm really going to miss our time together.
Here in Atlanta covering the college football awards stuff, and Thorpe Award finalist Greedy Williams was asked the difference between LSU and Alabama: "Just being real, they can score the ball and we can't."
This is happening at an away match for Birmingham City FC right now. Fans of the club are heckling Birmingham Legion FC's rival at the end of the match. Birmingham Legion FC is in Alabama, USA. I just can't .... this is a crazy damn rock we're on circling the sun. Hold on, boys.
The revolution has begun. On three-days notice, the game of the season is here for CFB. BYU said it would play โanyone, anywhere,โ and now the Cougars have an opportunity to silence their many doubters.
#BYUvsCCU
#GoCougs
FINAL: No.1 Auburn 100, Alabama 81. Auburn Arena was the center of the CBB universe tonight and the shooting stars screamed and soared. What amazing scenes. I've never seen anything quite like this confluence of crazy at any level. The little gym is sports heaven.
Miami players were asked about Jabariโs dunk. Sam Waardenburg of New Zealand, the Canesโ 6-10 big man, notes that Miami โhas seen guys like that all season.โ ALRIGHTY THEN
The family of Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa tells me that over 400 of their clan are going to the national championship game. Column on Alabama's "home-feel advantage."
#NationalChampionship
#CFBPlayoff
#RollTide
This morning, I wanted to say thank you to everyone for helping me and my family through the first year of losing my son, Joseph Taylor Goodman. This past week was especially difficult. Miss you, Tay. Your memory gives me courage. Your kind and selfless soul is a guide.
In Auburn today for the beginning of spring football practice. Love this pic in the Athletics Complex. Cadillacโs four weeks as the interim head coach of the AU football team was an important moment for the SEC that Iโm not going to forget.
Furious with the mismanagement of Auburn football on Friday, I gave myself 24 hours to cool down. Bryan Harsin's failure of leadership is so much worse.
Learned today that
@bhmlegion
will have a ceremony on Sunday for Taylor, my son who passed away. Itโs the teamโs first
@USLChampionship
game
@ProtectiveStdm
and will be on ESPN2. Tay will have a permanent seat, jersey and plaque and will represent the 12th Man. No words. ๐๐โจ
If youโre a freshman in college and you leave school for the NBA Draft and arenโt selected in the first round, then you got awful, terrible advice. JD Davison of Alabama got awful, terrible advice. I feel bad for him.
Intel from Bama camp...
1. Brian Robinson has been outperforming Najee Harris.
2. X. McKinney has emerged as this team's alpha-dog leader.
3. Jahleel Billingsley (TE) is poised to be a breakout star.
4. Ben Davis is doing things at LB!
5. "Waddle best player on the team." ๐ง
UAB football coach Trent Dilfer today: "Weโre looking for the best players in Alabama. If they go to the University of Alabama, thatโs awesome. But weโre going to be the next best option."
Well, well.
Two Baton Rouge natives at inside linebacker for Alabama heading back home to play LSU next season after Orgeronโs โRoll Tide, what? F-U!โ Should be fun.
Alabama has the best player in college football. I know yโall understand how that stuff matters to the committee and TV ratings. I will not be surprised when they put Alabama in the playoff.
Fun stuff alert.
Fresh off his Nations League championship,
#USMNT
star Chris Richards will be at Birmingham Legion's game on Wed. at Protective. Begin the autograph line now. Legion will honor Richards with a video tribute at halftime of the game.
The New Orleans Pelicans have signed former Auburn guard Jared Harper to a two-way contract. Harper fills NOLA's open roster spot after guard Jose Alvarado signed a multi-year deal with NOLA on Monday. Big congrats to Harper.
I picked Clemson to beat Alabama before arriving in New Orleans, but I'm not so sure about that after being around these Alabama's players the last two days. So, so angry.
Heat is 4-1 with the lone loss being the second night of a road back-to-back at Minnesota. And, LEMME TELL YA, this team, from personnel to scheme and attitude, is like a direct manifestation of every Spoism ever conceived. Like a bunch of Spobots running around out there.
So, Dan Enos to Miami. Jalen Hurts probably goes with him. Enos transformed Hurts' game this season, and another year with the coach would only make sense.
Kyler Murray of Oklahoma is here, and isn't he just a flowing fountain of information...I asked him his first impressions of Alabama, and he said, "They're a good team."
And anything else, Kyler?
"They're a good team."
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I'm happy Harsin is gone, but I am more thrilled for Carnell Williams to be the Tigers' interim coach. Auburn already upgraded from a Pinto to a Cadillac.
Sunday's column on Alabama basketball, where every new game feels like a compounding of mistakes. How do you measure pain? A 922-word text message was the only thing that counted.
Joseph Goodman: At Alabama, the calculus of shame continues to grow
Well, Auburn fans, at least you didnโt spend the entire season being complete dicks by endlessly annoying us all with ridiculous memes on behalf of your fraud ass basketball team.
Because that would suck if you had done that and turned out to be overrated clowns.
I was embedded in the Auburn locker room for Coach Cadillacโs Iron Bowl. A column on what it looked like from the inside on a day for history.
Joseph Goodman: For Cadillac, hope and a prayer at the Iron Bowl
Tulane is in Birmingham this morning in the wake of Hurricane Ida. Team practices at Legion Field at 10 am. Great gesture by Bill Clark and UAB to help out a team they play in a few weeks. Thoughts with our family and friends on the Gulf Coast.
Fulfilled a dream this year. โWe Want Bamaโ was dedicated to the spirit of my son, Taylor, and today in 2018 was our last day together. It does not get easier, but he is always with us. Please consider donating a small gift to
@RuffnerMountain
in his name.
Taking a
#DeepFriedHeatCheck
this morning. ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฆ
Column on new-blood Auburn basketball, which blue-blood college basketball doesn't know quite what to do with.
Heard from someone today that UF's coaching staff has been complaining about having to add Alabama to their schedules. If this is true, then Alabama will have non-division games against UF, UGA and UT. Tough road.
Column on the Birmingham-Southern baseball team, the end of Birmingham-Southern College and final message of a school. This was baseball in its purest form. This was love for the sake of loving something one last time. It was an honor to cover this story.
OK, yโall have to check this out. Egyptโs coach goes OFF after his sumo wrestler is disqualified after seemingly winning the lightweight gold. His protests prompted a rematch, and Egypt won again. Ball donโt lie.
A really sweet event in Auburn today. Mascot Aubie was at the airport accepting letters to Santa and taking pictures. Aubie then got on a plane and flew off to the North Pole to deliver the wishes. (Hearts and minds, man. Get them young. No one does it better than Aubie.)
Alabama basketball player John Petty takes a poster of himself as a keepsake just before walking out of Bridgestone Arena to the team bus. The SEC canceled the SEC Tournament in Nashville less than two hours before Alabamaโs game against Tennessee. So many sad faces today.